Argentina · Business & founder
Temporary Residency as an Investor
The headline ARS 1,500,000 threshold is a legacy nominal figure that has never been meaningfully indexed. Confirm the current figure with Migraciones before relying on it — the norm may have been updated and DNU 366/2025's implementing rules may revise economic-means tests.
Argentine inflation has quietly turned this into the cheapest investor visa on earth — the ARS 1,500,000 threshold was set when it meant real money and is now worth roughly a thousand dollars. The consequence is that the money is not the test any more: Migraciones and the Ministry of Production scrutinise whether the project is genuine. Treat it as a business-plan visa, not an investment visa.
Qualifying routes
requires a project dossier; the Ministry of Production issues a non-binding opinion which goes to Migraciones
The facts
- Minimum investment
- 1.5M ARS
- Total landed cost
- the nominal investment is now trivial in dollar terms; budget USD 5–15k in legal, accounting and project-documentation costs — the file is the cost, not the money
- Timeline
- 6–18 months — the inter-agency review through the Ministry of Production is the bottleneck
- Physical presence
- Temporary residency cancellable after six months' absence under DNU 366/2025
- Family
- spouseminor children
- Permanent residency
- 3 years of temporary residency
- Citizenship
- 2 years of residence
- Language test
- none formally
- Dual citizenship
- Permitted
- Requirements
- an investment project of interest to Argentinadocumented lawful origin of fundsfunds remitted via a BCRA-authorised institutionclean criminal record, apostilled
- The ARS 1,500,000 figure is a nominal amount eroded by inflation to near-irrelevance. Because the number no longer filters anyone, discretionary scrutiny of the project has replaced it — approval turns on the dossier's credibility, which is far less predictable than a wire transfer.
- We could not verify from an official source whether the ARS 1,500,000 threshold has been updated for 2026. Confirm directly with Migraciones.
- Funds must enter through a BCRA-authorised institution and their origin and legality must be documented.
- The Ministry of Production's opinion is non-binding but in practice a negative one ends the application.
- Argentina's exchange controls, tax burden and policy volatility mean the underlying business case, not the visa, should drive this decision.